Presidential Science Advisory Council Assembled

Obama announced members of the Presidential Council of Advisor's on Science and Technology (PCAST)

via ScienceDebate team

It is an august group.

Physical scientists you might know:

Christopher Chyba - Princeton - astrobiology and arms control

S. James Gates - Maryland - particle theorist

Shirley Ann Jackson - RPI - oh yes!

William Press - Texas - astrophysics and computing

Ahmed Zewail - Caltech - femtosecond laser

Plus a bunch of industry, chem, bio, enviro etc types.
Including someone from Microsoft and someone from Google/Apple... Hmm.

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